In Memoriam Anita Alma Ugarte Dalla July 11, 1921 - July 17, 2012
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Volume 97, Issue 3 2010 Award -Winning Newsletter Summer 2012 In Memoriam Anita Alma Ugarte Dalla July 11, 1921 - July 17, 2012 Anita Dalla, the TAD’s grande dame Cover story, Page 4 Inside This Issue Features Pages 13-15 An interesting parallel between Harry S. Truman in 1948 and Facebook in 2012! Pages 17-18 A biography on Rudolph Delbert “Rudy” Gamblin, for whom the TSD football field is named after. Pages 18-19 Take a look at the success story of Jason Shaw, the first deaf solar PV panel installer! Departments Page 3 Editor’s View Pages 4-5 Obituaries for Anita Alma Ugarte Dalla and Mark Gobble. Page 5 TAD President Larry Dane Evan’s report. Pages 6-8 NAD conference report: Goals for the next 2 years! Page 9 TSD Girls’ 2012 National Track Champions. Page 10 TSD Homecoming flyer. Page 11 National Conference Hispanic Deaf & Hard of Hearing Conference flyer. Pages 11-12 Poetic Silence: Four photos & four mini-poems. Page 13 David Pierce running for Seguin’s city council! Pages 20-21 GURCSW updates. Activities of Travis County deaf senior citizens. Preparation for 83rd Texas Legislative Session. Governor Perry’s Committee on People with Disabilities. Delvin Furlough wins gold in 2012 Deaflympics San Marcos senior citizens news. Pages 24-29 At the NAD conference: Results of the Miss Deaf America Pageant. News from the VRS world from Ed Bosson. Grant Laird at the American Library Association conference in Dallas. Web TV captioning news! Massachusetts ruling on Netflix re captioning. Texas Department of Aging and Disability sued for discrimination. Harris County District Attorney’s sued for disability discrimination. Pages 30-34 Ads section. Page 35 TAD membership form. Page 36 Back cover – TDT ad rates, TSD Ranger Press ad. 2011 - 2013 TAD Board John Mills john@deaftexas.org 2 A Texas Association of the Deaf Publication Editor’s View of its own and is harmful to the welfare of By Tim Jaech the deaf community. [Editor’s note: The opinions and Negative personal opinions of certain ideas stated below are not members in the TAD necessarily endorsed by the TAD board members, and I assume full responsibility for them alone.] There have been people who won’t join the TAD because they don’t like someone who Kudos to all of our new is a member. 2011-2013 TAD members! The list keeps growing. This again is counter-productive. The However, we still need more greater good is to support people that members. the organization will serve by acting as advocates for the deaf community. I perceive a collective change in the thinking of the deaf community regarding membership in Political conservatism in legislatures state associations of the deaf throughout the United States. What if conservative states determine that the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) at Memberships are generally much lower today the federal level is too expensive? than in the past. However, this trend did not start just recently. It has been dwindling There is talk about dismantling Medicare collectively in the U.S. at least during the and Social Security, as we know it. Next previous 25 years. could be the ADA, and that hits home right in our own backyards. Why is this happening? Let’s look at some possibilities. We need funding from memberships to fight such thinking and to protect our civil Apathy in the deaf community rights to be on an equal footing with all citizens in our country. It refers to using the old saying, “Oh, let George do it.” Membership in the TAD is $15/$20 for two years. That is less than the cost of four It’s always easy to think that an organization entrees at McDonalds. doesn’t need you because of the good and loyal old men and women who literally give much Simply said – Join the TAD! – It’s the right of their time to the deaf community year after thing to do. The TAD is our watchdog! If year. not the TAD, then whom? Puns – a challenge for the deaf! It’s dangerous to think this way. [Editor’s note: Puns are words humorously used in The current deaf community is generally less sentences that suggest a different interpretation active today. based on how the word(s) sound. Tough for those who don’t know how words sound!] Lack of time or interest I do not enjoy computer jokes. Not one bit. More families have both parents working or single parents working and raising children. I changed my i Pod name to Titanic. It’s Indeed, that will sap the energy of anyone and syncing now. discourage participating in state association activities. When chemists die, they barium. Skepticism about the goals of the Jokes about German sausage are the wurst. associations of the deaf A soldier who survived mustard gas and Personally, I’ve had my own frustrations with pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran. people who say, “I’m waiting to see what the I know a guy who’s addicted to brake fluid. goals of the TAD are before I join.” He says he can stop any time. This is a dangerous excuse that takes on a life 3 How does Moses make his tea? Hebrews it. Summer 2012 Anita Alma Ugarte Dalla her to do so. July 11, 1921 - July 17, 2012 She also served as President of Dallas Auxiliary By Sharon Hovinga #141 of the National Fraternal Society of the Anita Alma Ugarte Dalla became a native Deaf in 1963-1965. In 2005, she became Texan in the border town of Laredo, Texas. a founding member of the Austin Mad Red Born unto Everardo Ugarte and Alma Hatters. Anita was inducted into the Texas Hines Ugarte, Anita descended from a long School for the Deaf Hall of Fame for community lineage of deafness on both the paternal leadership in 2006. and maternal sides of her family. A long-time member of the National Association Anita was preceded in death by her loving of the Deaf and Deaf Seniors of America, Anita husband of thirty-six years, Ray Dalla; her attended numerous conferences related to deaf parents; brother and sister-in-law Everardo organizations. (Lanita Ferrell) Ugarte; and two adopted sons, Joe Julius and Daryl Lee Lucas. Anita's gentle manner, bright smile, inquisitive mind, sharp wit, and lilting laughter will be She leaves to survive, her nephew Rick greatly missed! (Gail) Ugarte and niece Sonia Ugarte (Lew) Ganter; step-children Jimmy (Darlene) Remembrances may be made to the Texas Dalla, Jerry (Nina) Dalla, and Rosemary School for the Deaf Foundation, in honor of Dalla (Ted) Paone, all of Texas; and third the many happy years Anita lived there as a cousin Katie Breedlove (Tim) Johnston of student and where she served as an exceptional Michigan. employee. As an infant, Anita was featured in a Anita's 91 years of spreading joy was honored national magazine of the deaf, The Silent in A "Celebration of Life Mass" held, September Worker, (June 1922). Following her 8th at St. Ignatius Church in Austin, with Father parents' and brother's footsteps, as well as Tom Coughlin officiating. many other deaf relatives, she attended [Editor’s note: Donna Altuna, Jo Bienvenu, the Texas School for the Deaf, where she Kathryn Caldcleugh, Sharon Hovinga, Joanne became the youngest graduate of the Class McClenaghan (Kathryn’s niece), and Diana of 1939. Poepplemeyer were very helpful during Anita’s After working as a keypunch operator last days.] in Dallas, Anita returned to Austin and the Texas School for the Deaf, where she worked long hours supervising dormitory Mark Gobble 1975-2012 staff and students from 1973-1986, and By Max Bridges for The Daily Texan (Published 6/13/2012) then she retired from the school. Mark Gobble, a 2012 UT alumnus, died in a hit- Anita's father was the City of Laredo Market and-run incident while jogging on a sidewalk Manager and established a business selling near West Slaughter Lane and Vinemont Drive saddlery, harnesses, wagons, and carriages. in southwest Austin on June 10th, 2012. He later purchased a very large downtown building, “La Famosa,” which he rented Gobble, 37, was a husband and father of two out to several tenants. Anita obviously children, a proponent for the deaf community, inherited some of his business sense, as a UT PhD candidate, a teacher, a motivator and she was co-owner of the Roundup Drive-In an avid skater and the founder of the skate on Barton Springs Road in Austin. shop Mark Skateboards. Anita has certainly "hung her bright and “We will treasure our time with Mark, the shining star" on the great state of Texas. teacher, mentor and leader and his role as Joining immediately upon graduating high middle school social studies teacher and school, she remained an active member of associate and high school principal,” said Claire the Texas Association of the Deaf for 70+ Bugen, superintendant at Texas School for the years. She attended all TAD conventions, Deaf. “His passion for new knowledge is what 4 beginning as a small child, until the last few lead him to UT for advanced study and I believe years, when her health no longer permitted his work would have made major contributions A Texas Association of the Deaf Publication to our field and we grieve that loss among so TAD president’s report many other losses. Mark loved challenges, be they the mountains of Everest or the thrills By Larry D. Evans of innovation in designing his own custom skateboards.” Hope you all had a swell summer visiting Gobble was active in the TED community with family,friends,and and served as a host for TEDx presentations places.